Ralph suggests driving Massonetti to the authorities in Barstow in the mobster's own fast car. The mob cuts off phone communication and highway access to the town. Ralph manages to get Massonetti behind bars at the town jail. Tippy and two deputies, Karger and Eddie, make an amateurish attempt to capture Massonetti, only to get Lloyd shot and killed while trying to stop them. Massonetti arrives in town, backed by Davis, his top thug. She is tired of Tippy's shiftless, drunken ways and Lloyd's domineering rule of the family. Tippy's beautiful wife Linda was once the love of Ralph's life and regrets his long absence. A disgusted Lloyd agrees to help, but Tippy decides to arrest Massonetti and cash in on a big reward. Forced to represent a wanted criminal, Ralph asks the law to look the other way while a local airfield is used to enable the mobster, Massonetti, to flee the country. Lloyd is now sheriff and Tippy his deputy. Now a lawyer, he has been estranged from his father, Lloyd, and brother, Tippy, ever since being sent to reform school as a youth for stealing a car, taking the blame for his brother's crime. Ralph Anderson returns to his remote California hometown for the first time in many years.
Cobb, Tina Louise, Earl Holliman, and Lorne Greene. The Trap is a 1959 American color film noir directed by Norman Panama and released through Paramount Pictures.
